Trash...

[Mad D0G]

Today 5 of my buddies and myself went out for a day of boating and jetsking. Well when we got there it was covered with trash. Now I am the type of person who always, always, picks up his trash before leaving a public place.

We spent a good 45 minutes picking up trash. There was cans, bottles, clothes, human waste, ect. It was freaking nasty. So we each grabbed a big black back from my trunk and started picking up the trash. As we were finishing up the Park Ranger noticed we were putting a bunch of bags, about 10, next to the trash. So he walked up and asked us what were in the bags. We told him and he said that he hadn't been there in a couple of days that he was at a different location.

He gave us a reward. The reward was free camping for two weeks, we can use a day here or a week or what-ever.. Also we got free access so no more paying the $1.00 per person too get in to the parking lot were we need too be for the docks.

The thing that really bugs me is that people do not have the respect for the wildlife or the public. They think it's ok too leave a peice of trash here and a coke can there, but what they don't think about is that one peice of trash adds up where there is 100's of people in one location in a weekend. The worse part of it is there is always a trash can near where all the trash is located.

I guess this is more of a rant than anything.

[Diligent nose]

I'm a big fan of leave no trace. If I mess something up, I clean it up.(In the wild, my house is a differant story)

[n0mad9]

"Pack out your trash." - words to live by.

I feel your pain MD - here in Arkanass there are state parks *everywhere* - it's the "Natural State" and all that - but you wouldn't know it by all the beer cans and other assorted flotsam that people just toss around like the place was their trailer living room.

The other day I was in Siloam Springs with my girlfriend (she has recently purchased land with a manufactured home (trailer) there - on the border of Arkansas and Oklahoma) driving around "town" (8 stop lights, it's a big place), and while stopped at a light the person in front of us leaned out the door of their big, smoking Cadillac, and casually dumped their entire cigarette ashtray out on the blacktop.

I don't mean a little puff of ashes, either, I'm talking probably a 2 inch high, 7 inch across *pile* of butts and ashes. It was, for lack of a better descriptive term, a butt-cake. They must have been stowing this stuff away for quite some time. I pulled up when the light turned green, stopped next to the pile, jumped out and grabbed all the stuff in 3 big handfuls, and dumped it into a Wal-Mart bag I keep for trash in the truck. My girlfriend hollered "EEwwwwwwww SETH!!!!" but I was pissed and followed the Caddy down the road - they pulled into a *friggin* convenience store half a mile away lol

Instead of throwing the trash bag into one of the several trash cans in the parking lot, I ran over to the Caddy and threw the bag into the opening door, fully expecting to have a pissed hillbilly come out and try to stomp me but....I had just thrown a bag of ashes onto an 80 year old lady, purple hair and everything. I glared at her, she stared at me and started screaming, so I just said "you forgot something back there" and jumped in my truck and sped off before anyone could get my plates. My girlfriend just laughed the whole rest of the drive, and it was pretty funny now that I think about it, but damn - she was going to the convenience store anyway - why not wait till you friggin got there and dump the ashes into a receptacle????

sorry to add my rant to yours, but the lack of common sense/courtesy/decency in the world scares me sometimes

[PRTFW]

LOL you a$$hole, thats awesome.

[Verhaden]

Originally Posted by n0mad9

I had just thrown a bag of ashes onto an 80 year old lady, purple hair and everything
sorry to add my rant to yours, but the lack of common sense/courtesy/decency in the world scares me sometimes

Two wrongs don't make a right, but I don't give a darn either way. Rofl.

Good job :D

[Diligent nose]

An interesting read on how littering effects midway island. Its a long read, but the picture of the albatoss hit me pretty hard.

http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/1103/1103_feature.html

[matteus]

Nomad, the number of people I saw in Arkansas with purple hair was appalling--is there some sort of rule saying that once women turn 55 they must dye their hair or be sent to the boonies of Kansas or something? Hehe, while it could have turned into an arrest on your end, way to be karma in action for the day.

[Mad D0G]

My grandmother dies her hair a really freaky red. In the sun is looks purple. I went over there before I went to work today and showed her how people thought that it was slightly amusing.

She said she wouldn't be dying her hair that color anymore. lol

[matteus]

Mad Dog, you have saved yet another elder from the fires of eternal damnation for their crimes against nature, lol

[n0mad9]

Originally Posted by matteus

Nomad, the number of people I saw in Arkansas with purple hair was appalling--is there some sort of rule saying that once women turn 55 they must dye their hair or be sent to the boonies of Kansas or something? Hehe, while it could have turned into an arrest on your end, way to be karma in action for the day.

lol yeah I guess I technically assaulted and battered her 8-)

I agree with Verhaden too, I shouldn't have done it - was just pretty pissed at the time

as for purple hair in Arkanass, I'm pretty certain there is something in the water here that turns the hair purple after a certain age

[Mad D0G]

Originally Posted by matteus

Mad Dog, you have saved yet another elder from the fires of eternal damnation for their crimes against nature, lol

I see her again on wednesday so I'll see if it's still that color. If so I'll take her picture, if she allows me, and show you how it looks purple in the sun.